Ray, I think that the constraint makes more sense as a positive real number.
While the length of a thread will never be exactly a non-integer length, it
will eventually exceed any finite real-valued limit imposed, which is all
that's necessary.

(Actually, the "non-negative" part is optional. A limit that is <= 0 will
still allow the first message through before the list is throttled.)

- David

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 18:18, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress <
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> I think the constraint is that it has to be a rational number.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Eric
> Hellman
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 5:58 PM
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> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] mailing list administratativia
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> I vote for changing the limit threshold to
>
>         PI * (eventual length of this meta-thread).
>
> On Oct 27, 2010, at 3:37 PM, Alexander Johannesen wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Doran, Michael D <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> Can that limit threshold be raised?  If so, are there reasons why it
> should not be raised?
> >
> > Is it to throttle spam or something? 50 seems rather low, and it's
> > rather depressing to have a lively discussion throttled like that. Not
> > to mention I thought I was simply kicked out for living things up
> > (especially given my reasonable follow-up was where the throttling
> > began).
> >
> > Alex
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